Art Basel week is a golden opportunity for Miamians to experience important work that they may never get a chance to see otherwise in their own backyard. Strolling around the Convention Center all you have to do is blink to miss an original Donald Judd staring you right in the face. But what of the […]

Every year, the presence of Art Basel at the Miami Beach Convention Center attracts to town a slew of art luminaries who make use of the week-long festivities to present exceptional exhibitions and one-of-a-kind works, the likes of which this city hardly ever sees. This year, once again, the New York-based Deitch Projects art space […]

Art comes down like an avalanche during Basel week, and some of the best quality from all the world over can be found at the Miami Beach Convention Center proper. But let’s face it, the purpose of art fairs is to sell work, and sell it in bulk. Fair booths tend to rob work of […]

Shepard Fairey. We saw a lot of him last year, during the 2008 presidential race, when his iconic “HOPE” image of Obama became one of the most recognizable of the election. And for years before that, he bombarded us with his ubiquitous “OBEY” sticker campaign, one of the most well-known graffiti images ever. This year, […]

Not everyone is happy about Art Basel and all the subsequent events that accompany the celebrated art fair every year, the first week of December. For some people in the local art world, in fact, the fair has become like a dark cloud that yearly descends upon the city. The event has prompted local noted […]

Be sure to check out MAM’s latest Space as Medium exhibition, on view today through February 28. Featuring artists like William Anastasi, Lynda Benglis, Tom Burr, Ryan Gander, Katharina Grosse, Wade Guyton, Nicolas Lobo, and Rachel Whiteread, the show highlights the development of artistic works and methods that critique, subvert, manipulate, or distort, conventions of […]

If you haven’t seen the current group show at the Centro Cultural Español, do yourself a favor and check it out. The group show, Proyecto Habitar (featuring works by Raúl Cárdenas/Torolab, Santiago Cirugeda/Recetas Urbanas, Democracia, Gean Moreno, Ernesto Oroza, Juan Carlos Robles, and Todo por la Praxis), explores ideas of habitability drawing on everything from […]

Locust Projects presents Decollage by New York-based artist Francesca DiMattio. DiMattio, once known for making paintings that create the illusion of collage, she now delves deep into the medium of actual collage for the first time. For this exhibition there’ll be ten foot high banners with layers upon layers of Xerox images, culled from found […]

Last Saturday saw the opening of LITTLEST SISTER 09 at Spinello Gallery, which runs through Art Basel to December 10. The idea is simple. LITTLEST SISTER sets itself up as a mini mock-art fair, with 8 booths, all 4′ x 8′ in size, and a size restriction on all the work of 9″ x 12″ […]